Cigarette case and match box



Dec. 8, 1936. A. KAISER ET AL,

I CIGARETTE CASE AND MATCH BOX Filed March 11, 1935 R O T N E V m FNifithamErfl Kai'iEr BY f z 'ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 8, 1936 UNITED STATES CIGARETTE CASE AND MATCH BOX Alfred Kaiser, Jersey City, and Paul Niethamer, Secaucus, N. J.

Application March 11,

5 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cigarette cases, and has more particularly for its object to provide a combined water-tight cigarette case and match box, which 5 may be used generally, but which will more especially serve as an accommodation to bathers, thereby remedying an apparently long felt need.

As the construction of this invention is comparatively simple, the cost of manufacturing should be proportionately low.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and arrangements of parts, hereinafter fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all views, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective, side elevational View so of my invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of my device, as shown in Figure 1, but in turned position.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional View taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2, while Figures 4, 5 and 6 are detail views.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, Figure 1 shows a box-like device made of any suitable material, and which may have any convenient form; the said box is shown herein of a somewhat rectangular shape. This box is divided into two compartments, as shown especially in Figure 2, and has upon each side thereof two annu1ar tubelike projections l and l leading to the respective compartments, the latter being separated by a wall l2; the said compartments contain matches l3 and cigarettes l4, respectively.

The tubes l0 and H are closed by caps l and I6, which are screwed onto the said tube projections; the relative parts thereof being correspondingly threaded.

Washers ll, of suitable material, and preferably of rubber, are mounted upon the said tubes and abutting the lower edges of the caps in order to obtain a closing, hermetically tight of the said container.

The box is upon one side, as seen below in Figure 2, formed with a bottom enlargement |8, in order to accommodate the mechanism for expelling a cigarette, which may thus be obtained from the said box without being touched by a wet hand in the case of a bather.

The relative construction and combination of the cigarette expelling mechanism is as follows:

The interior of the box in the section of the said 1933, Serial No. 660,374

enlargement is, as shown especially in Figure 5, formed with two crosswise arranged, slanting strips i9, H! which are adapted to engage the respective sides 20, 20 of a cigarette carrying tray 2|, shown in Figure 6, and guide the latter in its forward and backward movement.

The said box is further formed with a trough 22, also shown especially in Figure 5, in which the said tray 2| slides during its movement. The said cigarette carrying tray 2| consists of a plate formed with upwardly bent sides 20, 20 and having a central, substantially cigarette-shaped depression 26 therein. The said tray 2| is below formed with, or has attached thereto a strip 23 adapted to slide in the trough 22 during manipulation of the device. tion a contracting spring 24, shown in Figure 2 is arranged between the said strip 23 and that With the tray in position for opera' end of the box, in close proximity to the nearest tube-like projection the said spring having its respective ends secured to the aforesaid abutting parts in any suitable manner.

While the end portion 25 of the cigarette-carrying tray 2| is slightly elongated, the said cigarette-carrying tray is positioned in such a manner relative to the tube member ll, that the said tray may slide within the tube II and project slightly outside the end of the latter due to the forwardly urging, or contracting, efiect of the spring 24, when the cap I6 is removed from the said tube II.

It will thus appear that, when the cigarette box is properly tipped, a cigarette, with several on top of it, will be positioned upon the tray 2|, and expelled, that is carried partly outside the end of the tube I upon removal of the cap I I. It must, however, in this connection be noted that the tube is of a diameter only large enough to admit the passage of but one cigarette at the time, thereby automatically regulating the expulsion of the said cigarettes. For the purpose of attaching the said cigarette case to the belt of a bathing suit or to the wrist of a person, the said cigarette case may be provided with a strap secured to the latter by buckles, as shown in Figure 1.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form construction and arrangement of the several parts, as shown, Within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention, and we do not therefore limit ourselves to the construction and arrangement shown and described herein.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:-

1. In a device of the class described, a watertight cigarette case and match container, the

former comprising a separate compartment of a substantially rectangular shape, and having a neck portion forming an outlet from said compartment, strips secured to the Walls within said compartment near the end thereof, and a rectangularly shaped trough formed at the end of said compartment for co-operation with said strips, a movable cigarette tray adapted to engage the said strips and trough, a spring having one end secured to the cigarette tray near the front of the latter, and the other end to said neck portion, a closure cap mounted upon the outlet of a the latter, said closure cap abutting the cigarette tray, extending the spring, when in closed position.

2. In a device of the class described, a combined watertight cigarette case and match container, the former comprising a compartment of a substantially rectangular shape and being formed with an outlet tube thereon, a washer mounted upon said tube, and a cap for closing the latter, strips secured within the walls of said compartment and near one end thereof, a rectangularly shaped trough formed at the end of the said compartment and inside said strips, a movable cigarette tray adapted to engage the said strips and trough, a spring arranged between the front portion of the tray and the outlet'tube, a closure cap mountedupon the latter, said closure cap abutting the cigarette tray, extending the spring, when in closed position.

3. In a device of the class described, a com bined watertight cigarette case and match container, the former comprising a compartment of a substantially rectangular shape formed with an outlet tube thereon, a washer mounted upon said tube, and a cap for closing the latter, strips secured withinrthe walls of the compartment and near one end thereof, a rectangularly shaped trough formed at the end of the compartment, a movable cigarette. tray formed with upwardly bent sides adapted to slide upon said strips, and having a central cigarette shaped depression, and a keel below the latter, said keel being adapted to engage said trough, a spring secured between said keel and the tube outlet, a closure cap mounted upon the latter, said closure cap abutting the cigarette tray, extending the spring, when in closed position.

4. In a device of the class described, a combined watertight cigarette case and match container, the former comprising a compartment of a substantially rectangular shape made with a slight bottom enlargement for accommodating a cigarette tray therein, and having an outlet tube opposite to said enlargement, a washer mounted upon said tube, and a cap for closing the latter, strips secured within the walls of said compartment and near one end thereof, a rectangularly shaped'trough formed at the end of said compartment and inside said strips, a movable cigarette tray made with upwardly bent sides adapted to slide upon said strips and having a central cigarette shaped depression therein, a keel arranged below said tray and being adapted to slide in said trough, a spring secured between the front portion of said keel and the outlet tube, a closure cap mounted upon the latter, said closure cap abutting the cigarette tray, extending the spring, when in closed position.

5. In a device of the class described, a combined Watertight cigarette case and match container, the former comprising a compartment of a substantially rectangular shape and being formed with an outlet tube thereon, a washer mounted upon said tube, and a cap for closing the latter, means arranged upon the inner wall of the compartment and near one end thereof for accommodating a cigarette tray, the latter being formed with upwardly bent sides and having a central portion thereof elongated in a frontal directionand made with a cigarette shaped depression in the middle thereof, a keel arranged closed position.

PAUL NIETHAMER. ALFRED KAISER. 

